Lucy Citti Ferreira (São Paulo SP 1911 - Paris, France 2008)
Lucy Citti Ferreira was a painter, draftsman, record company and teacher. He lived part of his childhood and adolescence in Italy and France, experiences that significantly influenced his artistic training. He began his studies in 1930 with the French painter André Chapuy, in the city of Le Havre. Between 1932 and 1934, he attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, a period in which he also participated in the Tuileries Hall.
He returned to Brazil in 1934. And, the following year, he met the painter Lasar Segall, with whom he started to study and for whom he also posed as a model. In 1935, he received an honorable mention at the São Paulo Salon of Fine Arts and participated in the 2nd Salon in May. In 1938, he held his first solo exhibitions at the Instituto dos Arquitetos do Brasil, in São Paulo, and at the Brazilian Press Association, in Rio de Janeiro. Bouchet et Jack, expanding his performance in the European artistic circuit. In 1954, he presented an individual exhibition at the São Paulo Museum of Art of São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP), consolidating his trajectory in the national artistic scene.
In 1988, the Lasar Segall Museum organized the exhibition "Sombras and Lights", bringing together works produced by Lucy Citti Ferreira after her return to Europe, highlighting the expressive and sensitive strength of her work. Throughout his career, he remained faithful to aesthetic research, with an emphasis on the mastery of drawing and the subtlety of light in his compositions.
Critical commentary
Born in São Paulo, the painter Lucy Citti Ferreira spends her childhood between Genoa and Paris, where he attends the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. He returned with his family to Brazil in 1935, when, through the writer and critic Mário de Andrade (1893-1945), he came into contact with the painter Lasar Segall, from whom he became a student and also a model for a sequence of portraits. This contact deeply marks its production of the period; His work is close to that of Segall, both in the formal aspect and in relation to the theme, which makes it much criticized and finds little receptivity in the artistic milieu in its time. As the critic Geraldo Ferraz points out (1905-1979), the attentive observer actually perceives many affinities between the work of Lucy Citti Ferreira and that of Segall, but also notes that the artist's production presents a exquisite gradation in the use of color, very Controlled, while the painter explores the vibration obtained by the various nuances, she makes use of tonalizations and seeks another type of atmosphere in her works. In general, its production from the 1930s and 1940s remains forgotten in Brazil and rarely appears in exhibition catalogues. As noted by art historian Vera d'Horta, in France the painter starts to produce almost abstract landscapes, in which she reveals an introspective character. In 1988, he held an exhibition in São Paulo, with works produced since the 1960s and gathered in two series - Landscapes of Remembrance and Memory. In some landscapes, sinuous forms predominate, such as on the hill at nightfall (1970s). Already in works in the Memory series, the compositions gain verticality, and the artist explores luminosity and transparency, evoking forests or even interiors of churches.
Criticism
"Lucy certainly has a painter's temperament, such as It is carried out in the works that it has now reached, through the very tenth and conscious acquisition of a painting technique in which we will find both the design and the composition, the appropriate color, a sense of the form, a meticulous care in the choice of the real data, and unlike a research in the exclusive pictorial plane, a penetration audacious and throbbing in the vital essence of the thematically formulated plastic object. The prestige of Lasar Segall's painting - the most solid artistic expression that unfolded in the country this century, although its European origins - could not fail to influence, in the Formation of the present Plastic Expression by Lucy Citti Ferreira There is no harm in this influence, nor will it be possible to deny it or try to limit it. with his short experience of the French school".
Geraldo Ferraz
Lucy Citi Ferreira: shadows and lights. Presentation by Maurício Segall. Texts by Jacqueline Kiang, Mário Barata and Geraldo Ferraz. São Paulo: Lasar Segall Museum, 1988. (XI Exhibition of the Exhibition Cycle Moments of São Paulo painting).
"In France, gradually, Lucy went from the interpretation of the figurative human to the landscape. The visible and its rhythms that, according to her, owed much in their sensitivity to the presence of the wind that it captures in some works, in the same way that in the landscape many whites are surfaces of snow that remain in the terrain, in which the greatness of silence is intrinsic to nature itself. Recents may appear strong blues, which she treats among the light spots that both mark her lyrical nature, at this stage of landscape designer. These recent oils are already walking, such as rhythm and agglutination of shapes, to an almost watercolor aesthetic dimension. In several of them, the sensitivity De Lucy interprets a kind of dilution of forms, even when they maintain a more solid central core."
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Lucy Citi Ferreira: shadows and lights. Presentation by Maurício Segall. Texts by Jacqueline Kiang, Mário Barata and Geraldo Ferraz. São Paulo: Lasar Segall Museum, 1988. (XI Show of the Exhibition Cycle Moments of São Paulo painting).
Individual exhibitions
1945 - Rio de Janeiro RJ - Individual, at the Brazilian Press Association
1945 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at IAB/SP
1948 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Galeria Jeanne Boucher
1953 - São Paulo SP - Individual, at MASP
1969 - Anvers (Belgium) - Individual, at the Maison de Rubens
1977 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Chapelle St. Bernard de Montparnasse
1979 - Paris (France) - Individual, at Chapelle St. Bernard de Montparnasse
1988 - São Paulo SP - Shadows and Lights, at the Lasar Segall Museum
Collective exhibitions
ca.1931 - Havre (France) - Salão do HAVRE
CA.1933 - PARIS (France) - Tuileries Hall and Grand-Palais Hall
1935 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Paulista Salon of Fine Arts - Honorable Mention
1936 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Paulista Salon of Fine Arts
1937 - São Paulo SP - 1st Salon of May, at Esplanada Hotel
1938 - São Paulo SP - 2nd Salon in May, at Esplanada Hotel
1939 - São Paulo SP - 3rd Salon of May, at Esplanada Hotel
1942 - São Paulo SP - 7th Salon of the Plastic Artists Union, at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1943 - Rio de Janeiro RJ and São Paulo SP - Artist Exhibition Brazilians
1944 - Belo Horizonte MG - Exhibition of Modern Art, at the Mariana Building
1944 - London (England) - Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Royal Academy of Arts
1944 - São Paulo SP - Brazilian-North-American Modern Painting Exhibition at the Prestes Maia Gallery
1944 - Norwich (UK) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Norwich Castle and Museum
1945 - Bath (United Kingdom) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Victory Art Gallery
1945 - Bristol (United Kingdom) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery
1945 - Edinburgh (United Kingdom) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the National Gallery
1945 - Glasgow (United Kingdom) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at Kelingrove Art Gallery
1945 - Manchester (UK) - Exhibition of Modern Brazilian Paintings, at the Manchester Art Gallery
1945 - Buenos Aires (Argentina) - Contemporary Brazilian painting
1949 - Paris (France) - Latin American artists, at the UNESCO Maison
1976 - São Paulo SP - The Halls: from the São Paulo Artistic Family, in May and the Union of the plastic artists of São Paulo, at the Lasar Segall Museum
2002 - São Paulo SP - Modernism: from the week of the 22nd to the Sérgio Milliet Art Section, at the CCSP
2004 - São Paulo SP - women painters, Pinacoteca do Estado
2004 - Brasília DF - The modernist look of JK, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Palácio do Itamaraty
2006 - São Paulo SP - The modernist look of JK, at MAB-FAAP
2010 - São Paulo SP - 6th SP-Arte, at the Biennial Foundation
Source: Itaú Cultural
